Dressmaker&#39;s tool and method of using same



Jan. 13, 1959 H. E. PATTERSON ETAL 8,

' DRESSMAKERS TOOL AND METHOD OF USING SAME Filed Aug. 20, 1956 INVEN T ORS HELEN E. PATTERSON 8 BY CARMEL R. JAM/SON ATTORNEY United States Patent DRESSMAKERS TOOL AND METHOD OF USING SAME Helen E. Patterson and Carmel R. Jamison, Ellwood City, Pa.

Application August 20, 1956, Serial No. 605,095

1 Claim. (Cl. 223-42) This invention relates to a method and a tool useful to dressmakers in turning belts and other tubular or elongated sections of material so that the sewing may be hidden.

The principal object of the invention is the provision of a dressmakers tool which may be used by a dressmaker in turning a sewn article inside out and pushing out the corners thereof.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a dressmakers tool which may be used to turn a relatively difficult section of material so that the stitching joining the same may be hidden and without damaging the material in turning.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a dressmakers tool incorporating means for pushing out corners of a garment, for example, the corners of a collar, pocket flaps or ties and the like, which are sewn in inside out relation and then turned right side out to hide the stitching.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a dressmakers tool which may be simply and inexpensively formed and used for turning sewn articles inside out and pushing out the corners thereof.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a dressmakers tool of simple, easily understandable configuration rendering its use readily recognizable to seamstresses, dressmakers and the like.

The dressmakers tool and the method of using same disclosed herein comprises an improvement in the art of devices designed for facilitating the formation of belts, collars, ties, loops and other portions of a garment to more readily enable the same to be made and turned so as to have a professional appearance.

Those skilled in the art will recognize that prior art devices exist which clamp, pin to or otherwise tend to mutilate the material being sewn whereas the present invention provides optional portions for turning an object inside out and then pushing out the corners so turned whereby damage to the material is eliminated.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the dressmakers tool and method of using it hereinafter described and claimed, it being the intention to cover all changes and modifications of the example of the invention herein chosen for purposes of the disclosure, which do not constitute departures from the spirit and scope of the invention.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the dressmakers tool with an intermediate portion broken away.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a portion of the dressmakers tool engaging a portion of a sewn belt in inside out relation prior to turning the belt.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a garment illustrating certain portions thereof which are ideally formed and shaped by the dressmakers tool disclosed herein.

By referring to the drawing and Figure 1 in particular ice it will be seen that the dressmakers tool comprises an elongated section of material 10, preferably wire, having a rounded head, here shown as an eyelet 11 at one end and a blunt fabric protecting end portion 12 at the other end. The rounded eyelet head forms a circular end surface 13 whereas the blunt end portion 12 forms a rela tively small rounded end 14.

The device is preferably approximately fifteen inches in length with the eyelet 11 approximately one-half inch in outside diameter, although it may obviously be formed of varying dimensions without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The device is particularly uesful to a dressmaker in turning a belt, tie, loop or collar of a garment from a form in which the same is initially sewn to the form in which it appears in the garment.

In Figure 2 of the drawing a dressmakers tool 10 is shown with the eyelet 11, and particularly the rounded end 13, engaged in a folded section of material M which is stitched as at S inwardly from an end thereof so that a pocket-like portion P is providedin which the rounded end 13 of the eyelet 11 may be positioned, as shown. In such position, the motion of the dressmakers tool to the right, as seen in Figure 2 of the drawing, while the section of material is held adjacent thereto, will cause the end defined by the vertical stitches to be moved inwardly and the end of the material thereby turned inside out.

When the material is turned inside out, the blunt end portion 12 is then inerted into the corners, as at the corner of the stitches S, so that they can be pushed out square and even a belt of finished appearance is thereby produced.

In Figure 3 of the drawing a garment is partially illustrated and it will be observed that points of the collar, indicated at C, and points of the cufis, also indicated at C, may be readily formed through the use of the device. The garment in Figure 3 of the diawing also illustrates a belt B which has been formed through the use of the dressmakers tool disclosed herein.

It will thus be seen that the several objects of the invention are met by the dressmakers tool disclosed herein.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is:

The method of turning or reversing tubular fabric articles exemplified by belts, neckties and the like, comprising the use of a tool consisting of a one-piece elongate rod body of circular cross section having at one end a rounded head in the form of an eyelet shaped from a terminal portion of the body and positioned with its center on the axial center line of the body, said head having a width of approximately four times the width of the rod body and approximately one-thirtieth the length of the body, the said other end of the body terminating in a short tapered reduction of circular cross section and said reduction being terminally rounded to provide a blunt fabric protective end portion, the body being of constant cross sectional contour from said head to the beginning of said tapered reduction the rounded head and blunt end portion of the body having dependent cooperative functions in the use of the tool for the turning or reversing of said tubular articles by the user which consists of incompletely turning the article by thrusting the head end therethrough and completing the turning by pushing out corners of the article by the blunt end portion.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,374,710 Antanaviczius Apr. 12, 1921 2,443,540 Lewis June 15, 1948,

2,715,983 Fraser Aug. 23, 1955 FOREIGN PATENTS 1,141 Great Britain Jan. 16, 1903 

